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Webster 1913 Edition


Cure

Cure

(kūr)
,
Noun.
[OF,
cure
care, F., also, cure, healing, cure of souls, L.
cura
care, medical attendance, cure; perh. akin to
cavere
to pay heed, E.
cution
.
Cure
is not related to
care
.]
1.
Care, heed, or attention.
[Obs.]
Of study took he most
cure
and most heed.
Chaucer.
Vicarages of great
cure
, but small value.
Fuller.
2.
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy;
as, to resign a
cure
; to obtain a
cure
.
The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the
cure
of the souls of the parishioners.
Spelman.
3.
Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment;
as, to use the water
cure
.
4.
Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
Past hope! past
cure
! past help.
Shakespeare
I do
cures
to-day and to-morrow.
Luke xii. 32.
5.
Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a
cure
.
Dryden.
The proper
cure
of such prejudices.
Bp. Hurd.

Cure

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cured
(kūrd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Curing
.]
[OF.
curer
to take care, to heal, F., only, to cleanse, L.
curare
to take care, to heal, fr.
cura
. See
Cure
,.]
1.
To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; – said of a patient.
The child was
cured
from that very hour.
Matt. xvii. 18.
2.
To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; – said of a malady.
To
cure
this deadly grief.
Shakespeare
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to
cure
diseases.
Luke ix. 1.
3.
To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
I never knew any man
cured
of inattention.
Swift.
4.
To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.;
as, to
cure
beef or fish; to
cure
hay
.

Cure

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
[Obs.]
2.
To restore health; to effect a cure.
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles’ spear,
Is able with the change to kill and
cure
.
Shakespeare
3.
To become healed.
One desperate grief
cures
with another's languish.
Shakespeare

Cuˊré′

(kụˊrā̍′)
,
Noun.
[F., fr. LL.
curatus
. See
Curate
.]
A curate; a pardon.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cure

CURE

,
Noun.
[L., to cure, to take care, to prepare.]
1.
A healing; the act of healing; restoration to health from disease, and to soundness from a wound. We say, a medicine will effect a cure.
2.
Remedy for disease; restorative; that which heals.
Colds, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
3.
The employment of a curate; the care of souls; spiritual charge.

CURE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. See the Noun.]
1.
To heal, as a person diseased or a wounded limb; to restore to health, as the body, or to soundness, as a limb.
The child was cured from that very hour. Matthew 17.
2.
To subdue, remove, destroy or put an end to; to heal, as a disease.
Christ gave his disciples power to cure diseases. Luke 9.
When the person and the disease are both mentioned, cure is followed by of before the disease. The physician cured the man of his fever.
3.
To remedy; to remove an evil, and restore to a good state.
Patience will alleviate calamities, which cannot cure.
4.
To dry; to prepare for preservation; as, to cure hay; or to prepare by salt, or in any manner, so as to prevent speedy putrefaction; as, to cure fish or beef.